Slate Money - The Size Matters Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talk big data.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Verizon buys Yahoo for 4.8 billion
-MSCI CEO study shows the highest-paid CEO’s run the worst-performing companies
-Who’s profiting in the digital advertising economy?
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Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello and welcome to the size matters edition of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:17.0 | Business and Finance News of an amazing week. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion, and I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello, Felix. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm joined by Jordan Weissman, who's normally the slate money box communist, who seems to have, like, disappeared into a political you know hole yeah |
| 0:40.2 | yeah vortex so if if jordan seems a little bit out of it it's because he's been worrying |
| 0:45.9 | about silly things like politics which we try very hard not to talk about on this show you're |
| 0:51.3 | welcome politics and religion well no we talk about religion on this show um yeah're welcome. Politics and religion. Well, no, we talk about religion on |
| 0:54.9 | this show. Not very convincingly. Apparently not, according to the emails we got afterwards. |
| 1:02.4 | We are going to talk about CEO pay this week. It's one of everyone's favorite topics, but we haven't |
| 1:09.8 | covered it much recently. |
| 1:11.0 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 1:11.8 | We're going to talk about the New York Times, which is a publication. |
| 1:16.8 | We talk about their stories a lot, but we haven't talked about their business very much. |
| 1:21.3 | And we are going to talk about the big media takeover news of the week and oh boy was this a doozy |
| 1:32.4 | Yahoo that venerable internet company the thing which basically you which introduced you to |
| 1:43.1 | what an internet was back in 15, 20 years ago, |
| 1:46.3 | that just got sold off of parts to Verizon of all people. |
| 1:51.9 | All the, yeah. |
| 1:52.9 | For $4.8 billion. |
| 1:56.3 | Wow. |
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